Vistas: A Theologian in Past-Life Therapy

In this memoir, the author describes his transition from the role of Catholic theologian to that of a participant in a very different tradition. After a brief account of his struggles as a gay youth with the frustrated desire to “only connect,” and his entry into Roman Catholic religious life, we are quickly brought to the recent past, as the author finds himself in a moment of near-despair. More or less on a whim, he tries a past-life regression during which the powerful experience of the opening of his heart leads him to a serious study of the writings of psychic Jane Roberts. In turn, these channeled writings (“The Seth Material”) bring him into conversation with a community of non-traditional spiritual seekers and further adventures.